From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8624C433E8 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D8B206D8 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="C30wlQYs" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726696AbgGXUr2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47:28 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:53514 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726493AbgGXUr2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47:28 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF71075347; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=k/mAyYaSF2kTu1+/VnBoWt0vMgs=; b=C30wlQ YspZYj8Prg3ft/1R+xmwW3mvb08sqlus2X1LSkfZgUfMnBEse7IoJBfHkFoI1Ysh pnSQaZNTscQlw4vMV2SZg9ZPFSigoVMVIVvdmxtxONugL2XsxlfRzQJTx8QPAr7P FyBdg2dirGhURS2Mkum0xE/n1xIydSGhlM/vM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Y4NP5JVNFQbU4a/I+e8WdUaDbpOi1HC4 +CV+wk74mpCWkvlZl3cjyToEKHRznnoRezvKjBYYT/ljHs1jyvhP7X0K4beZFB/z qOKhhdhEU/WQRIM3sNnzQQRC23scb6rkJnG1ixM7fpTqeeXvu1HXwrSLAq8UY7VA r7EfAr10VYU= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21C575346; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.196.173.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66CEA75345; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:47:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Derrick Stolee Cc: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net, steadmon@google.com, jrnieder@gmail.com, peff@peff.net, congdanhqx@gmail.com, phillip.wood123@gmail.com, emilyshaffer@google.com, sluongng@gmail.com, jonathantanmy@google.com, Derrick Stolee , Derrick Stolee Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] maintenance: add prefetch task References: <3165b8916d2d80bf72dac6596a42c871ccd4cbe6.1595527000.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> <52fc3f5a-281c-a0cb-d897-3866315913a1@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:47:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: <52fc3f5a-281c-a0cb-d897-3866315913a1@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:25:52 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E1537D36-CDEE-11EA-9F18-01D9BED8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Derrick Stolee writes: > I don't anticipate users specifying --task= very often, as > it requires deep knowledge of the tasks. If a user _does_ use the > option, then we should trust their order as they might have a > good reason to choose that order. > > Generally, my philosophy is to provide expert users with flexible > choices while creating sensible defaults for non-expert users. Sounds sensible.